He paused. "And Delgaun?"

"Delgaun also."

"I thought so," Stark said. He nodded, scowling at the barred moonlight

in the well. "There are things I must know, myself--but we'd best get

out of here. Did Berild send you?"

"Yes--as soon as she could get the key from Kynon. She is waiting for

you." She stirred Freka's body with her foot. "Bring that. We'll hide

it in the pit he meant for you."

Stark heaved the body over his shoulder and followed the girl through

a twisting maze of corridors, some pitch dark, some feebly lighted by

the moons. Fianna moved as surely as though she were in the main square

at high noon. There was the silence of death in these cold tunnels, and

the dry faint smell of eternity.

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